Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Freshman Lothrop Withington Jr., son of a onetime (1910) Harvard football captain, started the fad sweeping U. S. campuses, as raccoon coats did some 10 years ago, as the Veterans of Future Wars did in 1936. In Withington's room in Holworthy Hall one night last month conversation turned on his aquarium. Freshman Withington boasted that he had once eaten a goldfish. A classmate remarked it would be worth $10 to see the feat repeated. Thereupon young Withington seized one of his pets by the tail, popped it into his mouth, chewed well, won his reward...
...powerful XERA blares out boosts not only for Brinkley's treatments but for hair dye, life insurance, oranges, perfume and "doctor's book." The latter sells for $1, complete with pictures of Dr. Brinkley, his wife Minnie Telitha, their white-stucco home, six-story brick hospital and son "Johnnie Boy." Since XERA drowns out every station in the neighborhood, rates for XERA-time run as high as $1,700 an hour...
Born. To John Boettiger, 39. publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and his wife, the former Anna Roosevelt Dall, 32, a son, their first child; in Seattle...
Married. Libby Holman Reynolds (née Holzman), 34, myopic, husky-voiced torch singer (Moanin' Low]; and Ralph Holmes, actor, 23, son of Actor Taylor Holmes and brother of Actor Phillips Holmes; suddenly; in Washington...
...phosphorescent paint, a U. S. Auburn, a plane fitted for acrobatics. No. 1 feat of his 5-year reign: holding a balance between Arabs in his kingdom (about the size of California) who esteem Britain, hate Britain (and rioted after Ghazi's death). Heir: his 4-year-old son Feisal, under the regency of Uncle Amir Abdul Ilah...